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NBA Magic–Cavaliers

Name: NBA Magic–Cavaliers
Creator: RatingsReference
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

2025-03-16 · NBA · ABC

1,770,000

Nielsen avg audience · via press

final · figures last changed 2025-03-18

Published figures

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average audience

full telecast · final

press-attributed · Sports Media Watch

Its NBA Sunday Showcase series averaged 2.14 million (-1%), with its season finale doubleheader of Suns-Lakers and Magic-Cavaliers averaging 2.67 and 1.77 million respectively — up 24 and 17 percent from a year ago (Nuggets-Mavericks: 2.15M; Suns-Bucks: 1.51M). Sports Media Watch, verbatim

1,770,000

1 press attribution · no provider-published figure · single source
press-attributed = reported by press citing the provider

On the record

NetworksABC

TeamsCavaliers · Magic

ProvidersNielsen

Prior-season windows

NBA Suns–Bucks

2024-03-17 · ABC · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

1,510,000

NBA Nuggets–Mavericks

2024-03-17 · ABC · Nielsen, final · Sports Media Watch

2,150,000

2 windows sit the same distance from 52 weeks earlier; the site does not pick one, so no percent is computed.
Site-computed: same league, same weekday, both on ABC, nearest to 52 weeks earlier; Nielsen average, final or revised.

Cite this figure

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NBA Magic–Cavaliers (2025-03-16): 1,770,000 average audience, Nielsen (press-attributed), final; published by Sports Media Watch, 2025-03-18, https://www.sportsmediawatch.com/2025/03/nba-ratings-recovery-abc-viewership-up-ten-percent/. Via RatingsReference, https://ratingsreference.com/telecast/nba-cavaliers-magic-2025-03-16, accessed 2026-09-15.

Measurement era

Panel + Out-of-Home, since Sept 2020